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Community detection in weighted networks has been a popular topic in recent years. However, while there exist several flexible methods for estimating communities in weighted networks, these methods usually assume that the number of…

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Understanding community structures is crucial for analyzing networks, as nodes join communities that collectively shape large-scale networks. In real-world settings, the formation of communities is often impacted by several social factors,…

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In this paper, we propose a scalable community detection algorithm using hypergraph modularity function, h-Louvain. It is an adaptation of the classical Louvain algorithm in the context of hypergraphs. We observe that a direct application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Misiorek , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Community detection is a significant and challenging task in network research. Nowadays, plenty of attention has been focused on local methods of community detection. Among them, community detection with a greedy algorithm typically starts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Junfang Zhu , Xuezao Ren , Peijie Ma , Kun Gao

Discovering and characterizing the large-scale topological features in empirical networks are crucial steps in understanding how complex systems function. However, most existing methods used to obtain the modular structure of networks…

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Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to uncover the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

Community detection is a key tool for analyzing the structure of large networks. Standard methods, such as modularity optimization, focus on identifying densely connected groups but often overlook natural local separations in the graph. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sarah Frenkel , Johannes Carmesin

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

Community detection algorithms are in general evaluated by comparing evaluation metric values for the communities obtained with different algorithms. The evaluation metrics that are used for measuring quality of the communities incorporate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Soumita Das , Anupam Biswas

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Although several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Konstantin Kuzmin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We express community detection as an inference problem of determining the most likely arrangement of communities. We then apply belief propagation and mean-field theory to this problem, and show that this leads to fast, accurate algorithms…

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The global energy transition towards distributed, smaller-scale resources, such as decentralized generation and flexible assets like storage and shiftable loads, demands novel control structures aligned with the emerging network…

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Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

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Community detection is a powerful tool from complex networks analysis that finds applications in various research areas. Several image segmentation methods rely for instance on community detection algorithms as a black box in order to…

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The study of community structure has been a hot topic of research over the last years. But, while successfully applied in several areas, the concept lacks of a general and precise notion. Facts like the hierarchical structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Mariano G. Beiró , Jorge R. Busch , Sebastian P. Grynberg , J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

The concept of community detection has long been used as a key device for handling the mesoscale structures in networks. Suitably conducted community detection reveals various embedded informative substructures of network topology. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-28 Daekyung Lee , Sang Hoon Lee , Beom Jun Kim , Heetae Kim

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

We develop a Bayesian hierarchical model to identify communities in networks for which we do not observe the edges directly, but instead observe a series of interdependent signals for each of the nodes. Fitting the model provides an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Till Hoffmann , Leto Peel , Renaud Lambiotte , Nick S. Jones